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VECTOR AIRBRUSH Feather Effect with Pencil Tool 1. Pencil Tool: Draw a path. Fill of none. Black 30 pt. stroke. Round endcaps and joins. 2. Effect>Stylize> Feather. Radius: 15 pt. Appearance Palette: Turn on New Art Maintains Appearance. 3. Drag the fuzzy stroke to the Graphic Styles Palette.

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1.

Pencil Tool:

Draw a path.Fill of none.

Black 30 pt. stroke.Round endcaps and

joins.

2.

Effect>Stylize>Feather.

Radius: 15 pt.

Appearance Palette:Turn on New Art

MaintainsAppearance.

3.

Drag the fuzzy stroke to the Graphic Styles

Palette.

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Pencil Tool:

Make a few strokes.Select different stroke colors to change the

airbrush’s paint bottle.

Change stroke weight to move the airbrush

farther / nearer.

DoubleClick the Feather Effect in the Appearance Palette to adjust the amount of

paint.

Whenever you have a combination of

settings you like and might want to use

again, drag the path to the Graphics Styles

palette to save a collection of nozzles you can recall with a

click.

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The Feather effect accomplishes the transparency when

sprayed over existing objects. Black darkens, white

lightens, so these are opaque airbrush inks.

If you want to work with transparent

airbrush dyes, set the Transparency Palette’s

Mode popup to Multiply.

To cut a frisket:

Draw a medium gray shape. (You might

even save a Graphic Style as “Frisket.”

Get the Pencil. Spray an initial stroke or

two onto the object.

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Bring the frisket object to the front.

Select everything and Object>ClippingPath>

Make.

Black Pointer:

DoubleClick the clipping mask group to put it in Group

Isolation Mode. Now you can paint right

into the frisket.

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Select the frisket shape and give it the desired “underpaint” fill from the Color Palette, Swatches Palette, or Grad.

Get the Pencil—er—airbrush and spray modeling strokes along the

edges of the frisket.

The neat thing about the airbrush strokes

is; they can be adjusted anytime after-the-fact.

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In Group Isolation Mode, additional

airbrush strokes are masked by the edges

of the frisket.

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While in Group Isolation Mode, draw a new frisket shape

and spray a couple of strokes on it.

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Select it and its strokes.

Object>ClippingMask>Make.

Now it’s a frisket on top of a frisket.

DoubleClick it and paint into it until

content.

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The nested frisket and its paint can be

AltDragged within the containing frisket to

make duplicates.

This larger frisket now contains three friskets inside it. Any one of them can be painted

into by doubleClicking it.

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You’ll get neither

“blistas onya fingas”

nor paint under

your nails.—JET

Use of Lens Flare is mandatory

in each AI file. Check your

Adobe User’s License.